You can try for BCG, they are hiring a lot lately which makes it easier to get in

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Hi there,

Sorry to hear you were rejected. I know it hurts and you can keep applying but I personally suggest that you explore different professional alternatives inside and outside consulting. You will be amazed once you discover the vast field of opportunites and paths you can take in your professional life :)

To explore alternatives, there is only one and best way to do it: networking and talking with lots of people. Once you figure out some ideas, it works good if you find a mentor.

All the best in your professional life.

Alberto

To be honest, I think your approach is absolutely immature. It is true that consulting has a lot of unsecured overachievers, but putting all stakes on one company is too much even for a typical overachiever. Working with clients requires maturity, so probably it was the right decision.

You can apply to BCG and Bain - both great companies. But first, you should work on your insecurity.

Best

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I really hope that this post is satire and you are secretly laughing about this.

If not, I think Guennael and Vlad have said it. This may be the best thing that has ever happened to you. At least it can be.

Your post just reeks of arrogance, sense of entitlement, lack of empathy, immaturity and insecurity. None of those has a place in a respectable consulting firm. So your rejection is a well-deserved one.

But you asked what you can do, and I want to try to answer that question as well:

First, I suggest you take a long, hard look at yourself in the mirror and seriously question your values and belief systems. Because those are seriously messed up.

Maybe some exercises to get you started:

• I challenge you to read Viktor Frankl's "Man's Search for Meaning"
• I challenge you to spend one day in an Emergency Room, a refugee camp, the kitchen of a Michelin starred restaurant, a cyber-security war room or a data science lab and then come back and still say that all non-consulting jobs are "not real jobs".
• I challenge you to see the reactions on people's faces when you say "I work for McKinsey" vs. "I work for Doctors without Borders" or "I work for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation" or "I work for Google". Still sure that McK is the only prestigious name in town?
• I challenge you to read Seneca and other stoics, to practice gratitude and just broaden your horizon beyond that one singular goal.

Best of luck to you.

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This is the best lesson you might have had in your life.

You do come as immature, insecure and too categorical and there is nothing bad in this. You are probably very young. This experience will make you less of all that and ultimatley position you to be more successful.

Have you heard of KPMG? You could apply there

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uL6NP38hbk